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Iran's defiance came as Israel launched airstrikes on Tehran and as the United States deployed paratroopers and more Marines to the region.
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U.S. will hold off on Iran power plant strikes for 5 days, extending Trump deadline on Hormuz strait
Shortly after, Iranian state television put up a graphic that read: “U.S. president backs down following Iran’s firm warning.”
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Israel’s defense minister says the military killed top Iranian security official Ali Larijani in an overnight strike.
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His first statement since his appointment was read on state television Thursday by a news anchor.
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Iran has attacked commercial ships across the Persian Gulf and targeted Dubai International Airport.
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In addition to striking Tehran on the fifth day of the conflict, Israel hit the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon.
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Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed Al Ansari vowed that Iranian attacks on the gas-rich country “will not go unanswered.”
The briefing comes as the conflict has intensified into a wider war in the region.
Iranian state media have confirmed the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a major attack by Israel and the United States. The reports early Sunday threw the future of the Islamic Republic into doubt and raised the risk of regional instability. President Donald Trump announced the death hours earlier, saying it gave Iranians their “greatest chance” to “take back” their country. State television and the state-run IRNA news agency did not report a cause of death for the 86-year-old. The attack opened a stunning new chapter in U.S. intervention in Iran, carried the potential for retaliatory violence and a wider war, and represented a startling flex of military might.
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The assassination of the second leader of the Islamic Republic, who had no designated successor, would throw its future into doubt.